Program areas at BostonSight
Boston Foundation for Sight, d/b/a Bostonsight, is a world renowned nonprofit eye health care organization. Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming The understanding, treatment, and care of The ocular surface. Since 1992 we have restored Sight to thousands of patients from around The world. Prosthetic replacement of The ocular surface ecosystem (prose) is an integrated and iterative treatment pioneered by Bostonsight that restores visual function, supports healing, reduces symptoms and improves quality of life for patients suffering with ocular surface disease. Bostonsight prose uses fda cleared custom designed and fabricated prosthetic devices to replace or support impaired ocular surface system functions.
Bostonsight's clinical experience in ocular surface disease creates The necessary Foundation for driving research and ultimately innovation in The design and application of scleral lenses for improving quality of life for patients around The world. The organization's prospective clinical research program is unique as we draw from our history of direct patient care, aiming to solve new clinical challenges with direct in-house access to engineering, software design and our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility. In 2018, Bostonsight was named The number one contributor to scleral lens peer-reviewed publications; and in 2021, an analysis in contact lens and anterior eye listed Bostonsight as The most impactful institution in scleral lens publications.
Who funds BostonSight
Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
Personnel at BostonSight
Name | Title | Compensation | Date of data |
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Sara Yost | President and Chief Executive Officer | $318,750 | 2023-12-31 |
Cheryl Sadeli | Chief Financial Officer | $177,357 | 2024-07-25 |
Glen R Bunnell | Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer | $108,673 | 2021-12-31 |
Daniel Brocks | MD , Chief Medical Officer | $315,996 | 2023-12-31 |
Laurel Villers | Clerk , Chief Business Deve | $203,931 | 2023-12-31 |
...and 9 more key personnel |
Financials for BostonSight
Revenues | FYE 12/2023 | FYE 12/2022 | % Change |
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Total grants, contributions, etc. | $444,630 | $352,235 | 26.2% |
Program services | $5,311,899 | $5,249,658 | 1.2% |
Investment income and dividends | $76,173 | $3,475 | 2092% |
Tax-exempt bond proceeds | $0 | $0 | - |
Royalty revenue | $120,148 | $112,865 | 6.5% |
Net rental income | $0 | $0 | - |
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets | $0 | $0 | - |
Net income from fundraising events | $0 | $0 | - |
Net income from gaming activities | $0 | $0 | - |
Net income from sales of inventory | $0 | $0 | - |
Miscellaneous revenues | $9,560 | $18,395 | -48% |
Total revenues | $5,962,410 | $5,736,628 | 3.9% |
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Data update history
September 1, 2024
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2023
August 31, 2024
Updated personnel
Identified 1 new personnel
October 23, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
Nonprofit Types
ClinicsDisease-focused nonprofits
Issues
HealthHuman servicesDiseases and disorders
Characteristics
Receives government fundingEndowed supportTax deductible donationsAccepts online donations
General information
- Address
- 464 Hillside Ave 205
- Needham, MA 02494
- Metro area
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
- County
- Norfolk County, MA
- Website URL
- bostonsight.org/Â
- Phone
- (781) 726-7337
- Facebook page
- bostonsightÂ
IRS details
- EIN
- 04-3150037
- Fiscal year end
- December
- Taxreturn type
- Form 990
- Year formed
- 1992
- Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
- Yes
Categorization
- NTEE code, primary
- G40: Diseases of Specific Organs
- NAICS code, primary
- 621: Outpatient Health Care Practitioners and Facilities
- Parent/child status
- Independent
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